49 x 70

About artist: Hewson has a First-Class BA(Hons) degree in Fine Art from IADT, Dublin Ireland. Solo exhibitions include ‘Blowout’ Stoney Road Press (2022), 'Ammo Veil' at The Hillsboro Fine Art gallery (2018) and ‘Scintilla’ at The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2017) which was the culmination of work produced during a six-month residency at The Royal Hibernian Academy School. Other residencies include a six-month residency at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn New York in 2018, SIM Residency in Berlin in 2019 and Wilton Park Studios Residency, Dublin in 2019/2020, Facebook AIR program (2020)where she created two wall murals in the European Headquarters, and currently in residence at The Dean Arts Studio, Dublin. Hewson won the Whyte's Award for painting at the 190th RHA Annual Exhibition, was shortlisted for the Hennessy Craig Biennial Award in 2019, is accredited with the Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Travel Bursary Award 2018 and won the ‘Special Prize for Contemporary Art’ at the ‘Biennial of Humour and Satire in Art’, Bulgaria in 2017. Hewson recently had her work at auction in Sotheby’s in London and her work continues to be internationally collected by private collectors in New York, Australia, Germany, France, Norway, and Spain. Public collections include The Trinity College Dublin History of Art collection, The Office of Public Works, Dublin, The Law Society of Ireland, the Microsoft Collection, Fidelity Investments and The Cleveland Clinic.
About artwork: Hewson is continually searching for ways to access and explore the unconscious mind. The covert activity that continually runs in the background makes up 95% of brain activity and creates the basis of our individual character, thinking and behaviour. Research and concerns include cognition in vision, the importance of structure to the human psyche and context of colour within the overlap of psychology and neurology. For Hewson, the introspective process of self-discovery is about the desire for excavation but also seeks to repel the same insight through escapism. Liberated self-expression in paint and constructed mathematical formulas in installation and animation result in optical illusions of dimension, light and pattern that linger on the peripheral areas that poke at our visual perception. The multitude of cohesive and combative layers reveals the complexity of this unconscious space while each piece becomes a documented glimpse of the activity here. Hewson creates an abstract sensory vocabulary, through colour and material exploration, that activates and celebrates this part of the brain that is often taken for granted, while ultimately seeking connectivity with the viewer through our collective unconscious.
Website: https://www.leahhewson.com
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Edition: Yes 88 of 100

Excellent Condition

Archival Print

Yes